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"The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art"

Published in 2013
306 pages, fully illustrated

The Guggenheim Reader Series: Modern Asian Art is the second installment in an ongoing series collecting out-of-print and hard-to-find essays from past Guggenheim publications and lectures to illuminate focused topics in art history. Much like 2012’s Russia reader, Modern Asian Art examines five decades of the museum’s interest in the region, culminating in a simultaneous presentation of four separate exhibitions on Asian art in the Guggenheim’s New York location in 2013. Contributors include Edward Fry, Francesco Bonami, Alexandra Munroe, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Gordon Washburn.

Contents

"A Century in Crisis: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Twentieth-Century China"Julia F. Andrews, from A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China (1998), pp. 2–9.

"Chinese Painting in the Post-Mao Era"Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen, from A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth-Century China (1998), pp. 278–89.